User talk:Grrrlriot

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Welcome

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Thank you for your time, comrade.  ~ User:Beta_M (VolodyA! V Anarhist) ^Talk 2008 January 27 08:24 _(UTC)

Thanks for the welcome and the information, Beta_M! :) --Grrrlriot 18:47, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

SysOp

Hi again, thanks for contributions, i've made you a sysop as it looks you were interested in improving our portal. Hope you will contribute constructively.  ~ User:Beta_M (VolodyA! V Anarhist) ^Talk 2008 January 27 08:26 _(UTC)

What is a sysop? Sorry to sound stupid. I do plan on contributing more to this wiki. --Grrrlriot 18:55, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

A sysop is a system operator ([1]. I thought everyone was a sysop here, so I don't know what Beta_M means. --Anonymity 05:26, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Anonymity for clearing that up for me. I thought everyone was a sysop too. --Grrrlriot 16:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

SysOps can delete and restore pages, they also see an '!' next to new and unmoderated edits on Special:Recentchanges, which helps to fight against spammers. But recently we got our spam problem under control through filters and such, so there is very little extra to do for the SysOp.  ~ User:Beta_M (VolodyA! V Anarhist) ^Talk 2008 January 28 07:51 _(UTC)

A SysOp is pretty much an admin or something like it, right? Thanks for making me a SysOp! I'm still a little confused about this because I thought everyone was a SysOp. --Grrrlriot 16:46, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

A title 'admin' in this context is normally reserved to people who have access to raw database, server settings, etc. We definitely cannot make everybody admin, since that would give them everybody's e-mails, password hashes (making it easier to get passwords, or to change them), etc. MediaWiki has SysOps which can do what i've described above. I hope this clears some stuff up, i am sorry for causing confusion. Perhaps in the future i'll just make people SysOps when it's clear that their goal of editing is to improve on Anarchopedia, rather than to vandalise it, and just say nothing... q;-)  ~ User:Beta_M (VolodyA! V Anarhist) ^Talk 2008 January 28 17:26 _(UTC)